February 8, 2012

Best of CAD Notes: 20 Most Viewed in 2009

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Before we continue with new tutorials and tips, let’s look back a little. There are over 140 articles in CAD notes after 7 months running. I know it’s not such a big number, but it’s interesting to see what people want to see on CAD Notes. So I look into CAD Notes statistics on Google [...]

What is Your Favorite AutoCAD/Revit/MicroStation Tip?

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  This time, I’m asking your help to submit your favorite tips of all time. You can submit tips about AutoCAD, Revit, or MicroStation here. The purpose is to create 3 lists: ‘xx greatest tips’ for those 3 applications. ‘50 AutoCAD Greatest Tips’ sounds great, isn’t it? I believe we will see some great tips [...]

E-book: Revit Architecture 2010: Your First Residential Design

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Learning Revit Architecture may be confusing. You may don’t know where to start and what to do. This e-book provides you step-by-step tutorial, from the concept, interface, and building a model from scratch. Until the documentation is ready to plot. What are you going to learn in this e-book? Understand the Revit concept Knowing the [...]

10 AutoCAD Ribbon Tips You Should Know

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Still struggling with AutoCAD ribbon? Read these 10 tips to make your life easier!

Free eBook: Developing AutoCAD Drawing System

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I’ve been writing about creating AutoCAD drawing system in several posts. I also posts about features that can boost your AutoCAD productivity. And then I think I need to compile them in an e-book. It’s too long to be a post. It’s not a complete tutorial, it’s simply a guide. I just want to share [...]

Using Info Center to Notify RSS Update

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Have you noticed that you consistently see a pop-up message on the top right of your Autodesk Applications? Either it’s Revit, AutoCAD, Inventor or others. It’s the communication center. If you are connected to internet, then communication center will automatically check if there’s any new information available. This is not my original idea, I saw [...]

A Simple Guide: 12 steps to Mastering AutoCAD

I saw in Twitter that a lot of people having trouble learning AutoCAD. I’m not sure what is the problem, but I think learning AutoCAD is not too difficult. In this post, I will try to write a simple guide for you who are learning AutoCAD. No, this is not a tutorial, but it’s about [...]

10+ Ways to Use AutoCAD Object Selection

Picking drawing elements in AutoCAD can be frustrating, especially if you have a complex drawing. You can see (most of) AutoCAD tools options on command line or dynamic input. Like this polyline tool for example. You can see it’s options: arc, halfwidth, length, undo, and width. But do you see the options for selecting drawing [...]